Two-dimensional semantics
Subtitle: clausal adjuncts and complements
By: Tatjana Scheffler
Series: Linguistische Arbeiten -- 549; Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) -- 549.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9783110302141
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Clauses; German language; Semantics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: Two-dimensional semantics.; title: Conventional implicature ;; title: Conventional implicatures vs. presuppositions;; title: A discourse logic --; title: Sentence adverbs.; title: Types of sentence adverbs ;; title: Semantic unembeddability;; title: Antecedent of conditionals;; title: Questions;; title: Negation;; title: Denial;; title: Attitude verbs;; title: Semantic (un)embeddability of sentence adverbs ;; title: Properties of german sentence adverbs;; title: The probably type;; title: The unfortunately type;; title: The frankly type;; title: Frankly speaking;; title: Properties of three types of sentence adverbs ;; title: Sentence adverbs on two semantic dimensions ;; title: Syntax/semantics mismatch;; title: An anaphoric approach to utterance modification ;; title: Summary --; title: Denn and weil : causal connectives in two dimensions.; title: Data;; title: Two german words for 'Because';; title: Epistemic and speech act uses;; title: Three exceptions to the use of denn ;; title: Previous work;; title: The performative analysis;; title: Denn and antibackgrounding ;; title: Semantics of denn;; title: Denn as a conventional implicature item;; title: Unembeddability of denn;; title: Formalizing denn's semantics ;; title: Syntax of denn ;; title: The distribution of denn vs. weil explained;; title: Denn in epistemic and speech act causal sentences;; title: Three exceptions to the use of denn ;; title: Further issues;; title: Epistemic and speech act uses of weil;; title: English because;; title: Embedding under non-restrictive relative clauses ;; title: Summary --; title: Relevance conditionals : if on another dimension.; title: Crucial properties of relevance conditionals;; title: Semantic unembeddability;; title: Illocutionary status of the consequent;; title: Syntactic unintegration ;; title: The analysis : 'If' on two dimensions;; title: Proposal;; title: Net effect of the if-clause in RCs;; title: Discussion ;; title: Previous accounts;; title: Conditional assertion accounts;; title: Existential quantification over potential literal acts;; title: Relevance conditionals as topics ;; title: Summary --; title: A paradigm of adjuncts on two dimensions.; title: Taking stock;; title: Syntactic unintegration;; title: Argument types of CI modifiers ;; title: Although ;; title: Modifiers on different dimensions --; title: Complement clauses.; title: Attitude verbs and their complements;; title: V2 embedding;; title: Slifting;; title: Properties of slifting vs. V2 embedding ;; title: Verbs that allow slifting and V2 complements;; title: Which verbs allow V2 complements?;; title: Which verbs do not allow V2 complements?;; title: Slifting verbs;; title: Generalization : epistemicity ;; title: Slifting as evidentials;; title: Analysis;; title: Slifting and verb classes;; title: Slifting and semantic embedding;; title: Summary : slifting ;; title: V2 complement clauses;; title: Analysis;; title: V2 complement clauses and verb classes;; title: V2 complement clauses and semantic embedding;; title: Summary : V2 complement clauses ;; title: Summary : V2 complements & slifting --; title: Conclusion ---- Bibliography-- Term index-- Author index.